Liz Walker

View Liz’s recent exhibition Catalogue here

Collecting, repurposing and extending the material possibilities of natural ephemera, found detritus and recycled domestic objects play a key role in a practice investigating contemporary social and environmental concerns. Liz uses an extensive range of resources gathered from around the inner city and rural sites to construct sculpture, assemblage, installations and ephemeral site specific responses to people, time and place. She is fascinated by the aesthetics of decay and the visual language created by the passage of time; willingly exploiting this to magnify the underlying issues explored in her work. Liz has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, undertaken public artworks, received awards, grants and residencies and her work is held in public and private collections in Australia, Japan, Malaysia  and Ireland.

The Call of the Wild

Using deconstructed objects, garden tools , vintage brass and roofing iron collected from the Mornington Peninsula as a starting point this exhibition of sculpture and assemblage  explores our relationship with the natural world.

Since moving to Red Hill from inner city Melbourne 7 years ago I have spent hours exploring the local bushland and beaches nearby observing the seasonal changes and looking for traces of the natural world . So much of my work responds to the environmental threats posed by climate change, plastic pollution and the social implications of living in our contemporary world.

But the works in The call of the wild  are an expression of my deep love and appreciation for the wonders of nature and my ongoing commitment to giving obsolete objects and materials a new life in an attempt to reduce waste and our impact on the planet.